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getting saved EIP value

Hi,
I am a getting a kernel panic with the error as bad EIP value when I
return from a function. I want to check if the EIP is getting modified
in the function. How do I get the saved EIP value from the stack. In
essence I tried the following, but it failed:

function() {
char temp[4];
printk("Saved EIP %x", *(unsigned long*)(temp + 8));

}

I know that the value printed is wrong, as I also used dump_stack( ),
which gave a differnet address for the previous function.

Any help will be appreciated. thanks in advance.

Regards,
Vinay

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